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Continuing my illustrators you should look at theme comes the awesome work of Jake Parker. I really like his pen and ink stuff more than his painted work, however both are all shades of great. Definitely going to pick up that little illustrated book of his.
Ian Kim based out of LA is definitely a rising talent to watch in the illustration work. His stuff does have that James Jean quality to it.
Frakking toasters by Jeanette Atwood is in many ways the best commentary on Battlestar Galactica I’ve ever read (the fact it’s a comic is just icing on the cake for me). Shame there is no RSS link. C’mon Jeanette, sort it out.
Interesting 9rules case study. My favourite part is ‘And as good bloggers do, they blogged on why they left 9rules.’
Elsewhere.brokenkode.com (powered by Asaph) is a an images dumping ground for things that inspire me and has been up and running for a week or so. I’ll hopefully get around to skinning this as well, but I’ve got to say that Dominic really did a good job on this little application and can’t wait to see future iterations.
Sky Crawlers - The new Mamoru Oshii film (you know the guy how did ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 1&2 and the excellent ‘Patlabour’ 1&2
Battlestar Galactica season 4 trailer is online. It seems it’s an old one, but i really like what they’ve done with the shadows coming in and out. The good news is that at least it’s coming in March, as originally I thought Sci-fi was going to try and put it out in April. Is there any news as to how far into everything the team is in the development of the series? ie will we be expect some more waiting in between episodes or are they going to show the whole thing in one chunk (yeah I know wishful thinking and all that).
http://www.brokenkode.com/battlestar-galactica-season-4-trailer
Don’t forget the first issue of Warren Ellis’s Freakangels debuts later on today. Got a good feeling about this. Here’s the RSS feed for everyone.
Now see that’s fucking weird. I was having a pretty rough Tuesday at work, so we went out for a couple of drinks after work. I work in Mornington Crescent, which is like at the bottom of Camden towards Tottenham Court Road, so most of our Friday evening are spent in and around the Camden area. It’s an area that’s got enough food choices to keep even the most fussy eater happy. It’s got it’s cinema, Regent’s Park is a stone’s throw away and there are 100s of pubs and bars around the area.
That’s not the weird part in case you were wondering, the weird part was the fact that on Wednesday we ended up in the Hawley Arms that night. This was actually the first time I had ever been in here, even though I’ve been working in and around the Camden area for nearly 6 years now. That’s what I’m trying to get at, the place has got soo many bars and stuff that it’s impossible to have been to all of them unless you make a real concerted effort. Now the pub (which is famous for bringing in the celebrities in the past…not so much any more I guess) was partly burnt in the fires last night. So I kind of just saw it in one piece just in time, even though I’d past by it 1000s of times in the past 5 years.
Hell, yesterday we were in Old Street and Stathi and I were thinking about dropping by Camden along the way, but decided against it since we were both pretty knackered, had we gone up we would have seen the fires. No doubt I’ll see that sometime tomorrow.
I’ve got a question which I was hoping somebody would help me with. I love Google Reader, I really do, loads of great things about this little application to like, in the same way that I like Gmail as well. My only problem with it right now is one function that is not present and I was wondering if others are having the same problem as well, and if there is any easy way to rectify this (like a greasemonkey script or something similar. Basically the way I read my feeds doesn’t allow me to read EVERYTHING in one go. Which is fine, no problem. Those items i’ve not read remain unread. The problem is that when i get back to reading things the newer feeds get placed at the top (which is fine and dandy) but all of the read items are mixed in with the unread ones. So what happens then is that I have to spend a long time scrolling down to the previous items.
Obviously sometimes (read: most times) i can’t be fucked and so i just ‘mark all as read’, which really defeats the object doesn’t it. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this, or is knows whether or not google might be looking to sort this out, or where I can send my email towards?
Firefox 2 is slow as donkeys on a Mac. It’s true. Even with my 2Gs of RAM I can still notice the strain, that and it’s constantly crashing for some reason (usually whenever I use Gmail. Alas I’m eagerly waiting for Firefox3 to be released which is looking a lot better for everyone. In the meantime here are a couple of plugins I’ve found for Safari that I think are really useful: (I’ve updated it with a slew more cool little plugins, based on the comments)
And of course we shouldn’t forget Pimpmysafari
Anyone got any other ones I should look at?
You Sucjk at Photoshop. You do, you’re awful, and that’s why you’re here. Absolutely brilliantly funny series of photoshop ‘tutorials’ from Donnie. There are 4 tutorials at the moment. Hopefully he’ll continue these because they are pretty good.
I know I really shouldn’t be excited about this, but the new Star Trek teaser (directed by JJ.Abrams) does look pretty awesome even for a teaser dammit
Fake Steve Jobs accepts one of those crunchie awards. Absoultely awesome video. The guy’s just as funny (probably more funny) in person than as a blogger to be honest, although I do read his stuff occasionally. And while he’s doing that thing he does so well, he also raises some really valid points as well.
Today was the first time I used Awaken from Embraceware. It was a whole new experience for me waking up today to a bit of Soundgarden. Tradiitionally I’m jerked out of bet through the bitter sound of my cheap £4 alarm clock that’s been going strong for YEARS. I tell you what, I am most definitely not going to miss that horrible, horrible sound.
New Batman trailer online. You know it’s going to be a good week when your monday morning starts with this AWESOME trailer. Summer 2008 can’t come soon enough.
Michael Schumacher decides that it’s time for him to take the wheel of the taxi when he was late for a flight. Not sure how much I believe this article on Planet-F1 but it really made me chuckle.
Wakerupper is a new internet service that you can schedule when to have a wake up call sent to a landline or your mobile. Traditionally I don’t get a good night’s sleep when I’ve got a really important the next morning, partly because I worry about missing it. Not available in the UK yet, but hopefully it will catch on and they’ll extend the service worldwide.
New Si Scott creme-your-pants-work. It’s been a while since I was thoroughly impressed by a new artist (in the same way I am with say James Jean). Si has been getting extremely good and his latest collection of work called Resonate is an awesome collection of work.
World Press Photo 2007 Winners. Unbelievable collection of photographs collected from the past year. I guess it’s that time of the year when all these lists start coming through.
I think I might be ready to make the plunge. I’ve been fighting this urge for a little while now but I think I would like to invest in a Mac. So the main question is what do I do? Which model to I buy? When do Apple generally release their new stuff? I know it’s usually around Christmas time and I think sometime in April? Should I wait till January just in case they release an upgrade to their latest products? The thing is I’ve currently got my PC with my 19 inch monitor, so I’ve got to find something to do with them as having both might seem a bit superflous.. or I could get a laptop so that I can have everything in a compact package that’s portable when I need it to be but can also be hooked into a larger monitor if I want it to be. Surely it’s pretty easy to get a screen switcher right?
Is it worth getting a Macbook Pro, or should I opt for the less expensive option? What are the good websites out there that show all these options laid out (there has to be right?) Which are the good sites for this sort of thing? Daring Fireball is commentary about stuff going on in the land of the mac but not really a dissection of the options and pitfalls for a newbie into the world.
So today is a very special day for the Kode. Over the last four years (more or less) of it’s life, the site has amassed over 4000 comments. Obviously this is something that I’m extremely proud of and wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful contributions over the years in making this places less of a place for me to talk to myself. Comments are part of way make a weblog different to other websites, in that they encourage communication between people around the world. They definitely make running this site a whole lot more fun. So once again I’d like to thank everyone for their contributions.
A brieft message. Obviously I missed the launch of this little gem. It’s a website of 200 word essays and thoughts on design that are accompanied by illustrations that change the look of every post. Awesome execution. While it borrows heavily from Khoi’s own Subtraction (in the comments section), it is great and inspiring to see what they’ll come up with next.